Chuck D Lists His Top 13 Most

Chuck D Lists His Top 13 Most Influential Rock Albums

Before Chuck D was the inimitable force behind Public Enemy, he was a child of the '60s. Naturally, he grew up on psychedelic rock and other popular music at the time such as The Beatles, The Doors, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. As a result, the 58-year-old Hip Hop legend has an affinity for music from that period.'I grew up in the '60s and '70s, so these records were on the radio,' he says. 'Matter of fact, a lot of these Hip Hop producers grew up on all those songs that made them more Hip Hop. Grandmaster Flash — all these guys do rock. Everything comes out of the blues anyway. Johnny Cash is not country. Johnny Cash started out as kind of like rhythm and blues country with a little bit of rock. He made rock out of that.'.centered-ad { text-align: center; margin: 0 auto; } #div-gpt-ad-body1 >div { line-height: 0; position: relative; margin-bottom: 16px; } #div-gpt-ad-body1 >div>iframe { margin-bottom: 240px; position: absolute; } .article-advertisement.article-body.article-news{ margin-top: 16px; } .article-advertisement.article-body.article-news p { margin-top: 0; } var pathParts = window.location.pathname.substr(1).split('/'); googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.defineSlot('/1010625//body1', [[300, 250], [320, 50], [320, 100], [1, 1]], 'div-gpt-ad-body1') .addService(googletag.pubads()) .setTargeting('section', pathParts[0] ? pathParts[0] : 'homepage') .setTargeting('page', pathParts[1] ? pathParts[1] : 'lp') .setTargeting('title', pathParts[2] ? pathParts[2] : 'none') .setCollapseEmptyDiv(true); googletag.enableServices(); googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-body1'); });